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Posted: **Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:53 am**

no...not another Sarah Palin joke.

http://community.adn.com/node/157217

Another established scientific hypothesis being tested is how the use of certain stone tools spread in North America. The lower levels of the site produced a very significant find of a roughly 12,000 year-old fluted projectile point base, marking the first time such a tool has been definitely dated in the north.

“The idea for decades has been that fluted projectile point technology originated in Alaska or perhaps Siberia and was carried south into the Americas,” explains Rasic. This model suggests that the Raven Bluff tool should be older than similar points found further south on the continent. “We’re finding the opposite of what people expected.

And all from digging through the garbage.

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:49 am**

Damn, this is interesting period. Going soon to dig with Collins at the nearby Gault site. Has anyone asked him what he thought about how Solutrean lithics appeared at Gault? Cruise ship from Barcelona?

Posted: **Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:26 am**

I'm really torn as to whether to go back to Cahokia or go dig at Gault next year. I'd love to hear about your time at Gault when you get back, please.

Posted: **Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:47 pm**

In my continued quest to make new friends, the use of bulldozers at Gault is unacceptable as well.

While the earliest layers are of the greatest interest, that in no way excuses throwing out what'w left of the other 13,000 years.

Yes it was plundered, but that does not mean you go in with a bulldozer and crush up anything that might have the plunderers might accidentally have missed. You use shovels and then mesh it.

Those 13,000 years are someone's history.

Posted: **Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:51 pm**

Quite honestly EP - unless you were there when the decision was made to use whatever method was used at a site, I don't think you're in a position to play armchair quarterback on it.

From you description on how you would have tackled the copper works mound above, I'm not sure I would have a lot of faith in your approaches to a site either.

Posted: **Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:12 am**

There is no turning back human progress, though. The days of having 10,000 men with picks and shovels go out to build a road are over. I suppose we should be happy when a heavy equipment operator does notice a potential archaeological site. I wonder how many have been run over and destroyed because the operator was busy bopping to his .MP3 player?

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